Mark Rothko (after) - Maroon on Blue - Offset lithograph - 80x60 - VG licensed print - 2004

Offset Lithography after Mark Rothko (*)
Reproduction of the artwork “Maroon on Blue” created by Rothko in 1957,
Printed on thick Fine Art 200g cardboard
Published by VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn in 2004.
Authorized printing with copyright by Kate Rothko-Prizel & Christopher Rothko.
Large Format.

- Sheet dimensions: 80 x 60 cm
- Year: 2004
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always stored in a professional art folder, and therefore kept in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be shipped with a tracking number.

The shipment will also include transportation insurance for the final value of the work with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.

(*) Mark Rothko, together with Pollock, was the leading figure of American abstraction. With his painting he aimed to achieve an ambitious utopia: to express the most universal basic emotions. And for many he achieved it.
Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. From a clearly Jewish family, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably fleeing the antisemitism that drove many minds to escape.
He studied art in the 1920s, but considered himself self-taught. Before World War II he cultivated Expressionist figuration and absorbed the spirit of the avant-garde he saw in exhibitions organized by MoMA.
After the war he began to explore color field painting, gradually abandoning figurative references, and in the 1950s, with abstract expressionism already established, he began the personal abstraction that would define his painting from then on.
Rothko’s paintings, enormous, feature broad rectangular fields of color with undefined boundaries between them. The colors are blurred, floating suspended on the canvas, stimulating mystical sensations that are quite interesting.
From there, Mark Rothko would become an institution in American art. Protected by Peggy Guggenheim, his successes would be notable. But at the end of the 1960s, amidst a depressive crisis, and after painting his series with black acrylic, he would end up taking his own life.